Dr. Toya Like is an Associate Dean and Professor in the Criminal Justice and Criminology Department at UMKC, where she has been on faculty since 2006. In the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean’s Office, Dr. Like is responsible for undergraduate programs.
Her research focuses in two primary areas: (1) contextual and individual level characteristics on risks for violent victimization, and (2) intersections of inequality across characteristics such as race, gender and class on crime and justice-related outcomes. Professor Like also teaches various courses at the undergraduate and graduate level including theoretical criminology and race, class and justice.
B.S., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis (1999)
M.A., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis (2002)
Ph.D., Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis (2006)